i'm joined by peter brookes, former assistant defense secretary under president george w. bush. now senior fellow with the heritage foundation. thanks so much for joining us. >> good to be with you. melissa: let's start with the address. what do you think he is going to say? >> well, we'll have to see, right? i meane might back down a little bit. or depends on what happens tonight. what the winds lok luke for him, political wind look like him in the morning. he will decide what he will do then. he is also ramping up support. as steve mentioned, there may be some large rallies of support for the president. this is a real shame, what is going on there in egypt. you know, we obviously are already concerned about the direction it was going. but this, this president morsi, who looked like a statesman overseas dealing with the israeli hamas situation, now loo like an authoritarian dictator back home. melissa: right. >> so a lot of reasons to be very, very concerned about the chaos and istability that may come out of egypt. melissa: when you read reports and look at pictures we were sh